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Guide
Neurodiversity-affirming practice in community mental health services
This practice guide presents a framework for family and community services to apply neurodiversity-affirming practice (NAP) to their work with all children, young people and families. NAP is a way of working that aims to provide a safe and supportive service environment that accepts, understands and values neurodiversity.
Report
The Social Outfit: 2025 Impact report
The Social Outfit is a Sydney-based registered charity and accredited social enterprise that operates a work-integration model combining paid employment with industry-aligned training for refugee and migrant women. This impact report documents outcomes across three pillars: skills and jobs, representation and circularity. The report's key findings demonstrate meaningful progress in economic inclusion.
Report
Raising Queensland: child and youth policy priorities
This report considers state government policy in Queensland focused on families and children over time. The report shows Queensland’s children are worse off than other states and that families are often not considered when efforts are made to support kids.
Video
Lunch & learn: blindness and vision impairment in the workplace
This recorded webinar by Ben Moxey, Emerging Technology and Accessibility Manager at Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, presents practical ways to design accessible workplaces where people with blindness or vision impairment can thrive. It highlights key accessibility considerations and technologies that remove common barriers and support full participation for employees in diverse professional settings
Report
No worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience
This report draws on three nationally representative survey and eight deliberative focus groups. It reveals complexity and commonalities in Australian community attitudes to national security, risk and resilience. The findings are intended to offer an evidence-based foundation for the hard conversations – and choices – a more dangerous world demands at a moment of compounding...